Last updated on May 29th, 2023 at 06:00 am
Seahaven Towers+
Seahaven Towers+ is one of the best $1.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by fishdog.net, LLC, Seahaven Towers+ is a Entertainment game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 1st October 2010 with the latest update 15th January 2023
Whether you are a fan of Entertainment, Puzzle, or Card games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
125 people have rated 9.4.2
You can download the game Seahaven Towers+ from APP STORE.
Description
No ads, no tracking. Uncover cards by moving them between 10 cascading stacks and 4 free cells so they fly up and complete the suit stacks. A standard deck is dealt in 10 cascading stacks. You can move the top card of a cascading stack to either an empty free cell or to the top of another cascading stack with top card same suit and one higher value. For example, 3 of clubs can be moved to a stack with top card 4 of clubs. Any value card can be moved to an empty free cell. Only Kings can be moved to an empty cascading stack.
NOTES: Not all games are winnable. You can reject a newly-dealt hand that looks unwinnable by clicking New Game again. If you click New Game before moving any cards, the game is not counted as a loss. Click Undo to undo one move at a time, or Start Over to undo all moves in the current game.
Seahaven Towers is a trademark of Art Cabral, used with permission.
Updated on 15th January 2023
Minor bug fixes.
Seahaven Towers+ Reviews
We have been playing Seahaven since the 80s. We have to say Im addicted to it. Its a wonderful version of solitaire and we absolutely love it. We even play it while Im listening to the news on TV.
Every game used to be winnable. Im disappointed thats not the case anymore.
We’ve played tens of thousands of this game since starting in 1986. We play it more than ten to twenty times a day. There is more of a strategy component than other solitaire games. You are going to love this game. Some of the changes are unfortunate including annoying new sounds. What would be good is to poll the app for winning games, so only games with a possible win are presented.
One quibble: with todays update, you added new tabletops but removed card faces. The new card faces are harder to read within the colors, and make the game less fun to play. Of course, we could also blame our 76-y-o eyes… Update 1 Mar 19: Thank you for bringing back the original card faces. Our favorite game for 15 years, going back to the Mac version.
"Not all games are winnable" elevates card gaming beyond checkers. You’d need a PhD in Chemistry or some-such to win monkey shenanigans. And the music is original and soothing. Games should include relaxing versus all the frenetic die or pay more schemes out there, but of course that’s a personal choice, and our personal favorite for years on original Macs now rocks iOS 9!
Love this game so much. Thank you more than you know for making gene letters bigger! You are great!
We’ve been a fan of this game since the original Mac version decades ago. This version is OK; it could use a "redo" button. Biggest problem is that it offers UNWINNABLE games! This could be solved by either 1) A leader board, allowing you to tackle games others have already won; OR 2) Build in a solver. Exhaustive search works fine and is pretty easy. This would support other features too, like a "give up" button…
New update? Cards are so small you can’t even see suit.
Probably going to delete the app. Really liked the old format. New format literally gives us a headache. Besides the unfortunate new format, we no longer have sound.
This is not an update or improvement; it is just a change … And a bad one. By placing the piles and free spaces on the side (instead of the top) there is less room for the cards so they are small and hard to read.
We’ve missed it since Apple’s OS no longer supported Art’s original game. I’d like to see the graphics improved. We miss the ability to choose from only solvable games. We would also like to see the clock stop when the game is paused; frustrating to see a resumed game timed out at 24 plus hours!
Hate the new card faces-not eye-friendly. Really sorry we upgraded this app- haven’t played it since.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Please, please, please, at least give us the option to go back to the V1.x graphics. The V2.x graphics are awful. Too digital, too stark and cold all which makes them very hard to use intuitively. We really don’t understand this change the graphics trend for the sake of change. Leave well enough alone. Please.
This update did nothing to improve the game and much to hinder it. The cards are now much more difficult to read, and none of the backgrounds are pleasant. Can we have the old one back?
We have played hundreds of games on the original version of this iPad app, and thousands of games on the old Mac version over the years. This update is better, but still crap. – The cards still all look alike. We still can’t see anything. We have tried, but we haven’t managed to complete a game. Can you try the longer card layout with the horizontal arrangement of number-suit? The packed format is impossible. The game doesn’t need visual challenges. – The background choices are visually noisy. The game is challenging in a pure way; it doesn’t need music, dancing monkeys, or varied backgrounds to interfere with it. – At least the music has stopped… For now. – If we try to report a problem, write a review (in-app), or request a feature, the app quits. On restart, the settings are returned to default. "Riipp, ripp!" Does anybody really like that shuffling sound? – All of these changes could have been feature selections that preserved the classic interface for those who want it. If the prior version were still available, I’d delete this one and buy the old one again. Yes, buy… With money.
UPDATE FOR VERSION 2.0.1: This update did NOT fix the bugs that were introduced in version 2.0, which made the game all but unplayable because it is SO buggy. Cards disappear randomly, forcing you to resign the game (this appears to be related to undo and start over). Sound prefs are ignored (and annoying), even trying to report a problem crashes the app. Not only that, but the new look is dreadful (wood? Really? 1995 called, they want their UI design back.) The new cards with the thin San serif iOS font are very hard to read. Overall, a huge, HUGE step backwards, a textbook example of how NOT to update an app. One star because of a total lack of testing. Very disappointing, especially because the 1.x version was so solid. Review of version 1.x: This is a very good implementation of Seahaven Towers, the author clearly knows the unique characteristics that sets this solitaire game apart from all the others. We only gave this four stars because it’s not quite perfect. Among the things I’d like to see changed or added are: (1) a redo button to quickly undo/redo a series of moves to see where to change direction. (2) some sort of indication (e.g. Beep or flash) when you’ve reached a dead end and can’t move anything more. (3) we’re not sure the single tap/double tap distinction is needed; it is second nature now, but we made a lot of mistakes getting there. (4) the rapid moving of cards from stacks has a visually distracting Z-ordering bug (this makes sense to programmers). (5) the modal dialog at the end of each game is distracting and unnecessary. (6) the "New Game" button is easy to accidentally hit twice; this is where a modal dialog should be used to confirm you want to take the loss.
We liked this game enough to pay to get rid of the ads, and we played it a lot. Then, one day we watched it reset, and a totally different game popped up! It wasn’t really a different game, but it looked strange and it felt strange and it took a while before we could get halfway into the old groove. We hated the new look and the new, weird tinny "music", but we could at least turn the noise off, at first. We finally got used to the new look, but never warmed up to it. The former version was rock solid, but not anymore. We can’t turn the sound off now, and if we wasn’t able to mute our iPad we couldn’t play at all. Even worse, the game is now really buggy. It crashes randomly, and cards suddenly appear in strange places, forcing a reset. Far more trouble than it is worth.
New cards and background are awful. Old version was a great game. This version is a big step backwards.